Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune

413, Scumbag (1 more update)

Lady Marquis nodded with a smile in agreement.

The old lady was so angry that she almost spit blood.

She had wanted to sow discord, but as it turned out, the three generations of mother-in-law and daughters-in-law were very united, making her feel as if she had punched cotton.

Instead of creating strife, she had only succeeded in infuriating herself to near death.

“Oh dear, I feel dizzy!”

Watching this, Marquis Weiyuan immediately ordered someone to help the old lady back.

On this rare occasion that his wife had allowed him to go to the main court, he didn’t want to follow his obviously feigning mother, so he sat down on a chair, taking a careful glance at his wife.

Seeing her smile, his heart also leaped with joy.

“…”

The old lady was even more enraged to the point of hatred, but she had no recourse and hurriedly had the maids and old women help her leave.

She simply could not control her daughter-in-law, and her son wouldn’t listen to her either.

With the departure of the old lady, the concubines, daughters, and aunts in the neighboring warm hall, Lady Marquis, seeing the three children growing weary, asked her sons and daughters-in-law to go back for a rest and specifically reminded Xie Yu to take care of his health.

She also told Xie Hanhan to go to bed early, advising the young girl not to stay up late, before letting the maid help her to get up.

Marquis Weiyuan quickly stepped forward, walking on the other side of the lady.

“Are you feeling better? Does the wound on your neck still hurt? Have you used the ointment I had sent?” Marquis Weiyuan asked eagerly.

He had obtained that ointment by pleading with the emperor for it in the palace.

Lady Marquis responded indifferently, “Much better, the wound has not hurt for a while now!”

At that time, it was her physical weakness that made it seem like a matter of life and death.

In reality, it wasn’t so serious.

“That’s good, that’s good!” Marquis Weiyuan hastily agreed.

He tentatively inched closer to Lady Marquis’s side.

Upon reaching the main court,

he sat on a chair, taking a glance at the bed.

The big bed had been replaced, and he had not slept on it since the change; he didn’t know if he would get the chance tonight.

After the Lady Marquis had finished grooming, she saw him still there; her eyebrows furrowed slightly in disapproval, “The room is full of the smell of medicine, I always have to get up at night, and I cough a lot. I’m afraid it will disturb your sleep. Didn’t you just take in a new concubine? Go sleep there instead!”

A bucket of ice water was poured over his head.

The whole of Marquis Weiyuan was stunned.

His eager overtures, his thick-faced following, seemed like a joke.

Yet when it came to actually leaving, he couldn’t bring himself to move.

“It’s no trouble. If you cough, I can help you ease your breathing, and besides, during the festive season, it’s not right for me not to sleep in the main court, to go to a concubine’s place instead…”

“Xie Yuan!” Lady Marquis said sternly, “My dignity has never been granted by you, not when I was a maiden, nor after marrying into the Marquis’s house. When your mother was tormenting me, my dignity had nothing to do with you. You don’t really believe that giving a few gifts to the children would change certain thoughts of mine?”

Lady Marquis was indeed a bit angry.

She hated Xie Yuan’s ways the most.

On one hand, he would show extreme love for her, while on the other, he complied with his mother’s wishes to take concubines, sleep with maids, share tender moments with one woman and entwine lovingly with another.

If she had been willing to share her husband with others, she would have become a princess consort long ago.

Yet he failed to understand.

He didn’t understand her fastidiousness.

If it hadn’t been for the desire to have a daughter of her own, she wouldn’t have let him touch her again after finding him entangled with a maid or rolling around with his cousin for the first time.

“…”

Marquis Weiyuan lifted his gaze.

There was hurt in his eyes, and also anger.

He didn’t understand why, no matter what he did, she saw it all as insignificant, never close to her heart.

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Marquis Weiyuan wanted to say something, but upon witnessing Lady Marquis’s cold face, with eyes that held mockery and disdain,

he found himself unable to speak.

He stood up and walked towards the door, but as he reached the entrance, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at her, “You will never understand, you will never understand!”

You will never comprehend how deeply he loves her, you will never grasp that he also harbors hatred for her, hatred for her heartlessness, her failure to understand the depths of his heart.

Chapter 415